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Silesites
Temporal range: Cretaceous (Barremian age),[1] 129.4–125.0 Ma
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Fossil shell of Silesites seranonis from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Order:
Ammonitida
Superfamily:
Desmoceratoidea
Family:
Silesitidae
Genus:
Silesites

Uhlig, 1883

Silesites is an ammonite genus placed in the family Silesitidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Cretaceous, in the Barremian age.[1] The type species of the genus is Silesites seranonis .[2]

Species

  • Silesites seranonis
  • Silesites vulpes

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Slovakia, Spain.

  • Silesites vulpes
    Silesites vulpes

References

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
  2. ^ a b The Paleobiology Database
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